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Peter Nugent
Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Publications - 774
Citations - 102726
Peter Nugent is an academic researcher from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Galaxy. The author has an hindex of 127, co-authored 754 publications receiving 92988 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Nugent include Liverpool John Moores University & National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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PTF11eon/SN2011dh: Discovery of a Type IIb Supernova From a Compact Progenitor in the Nearby Galaxy M51
Iair Arcavi,Avishay Gal-Yam,Ofer Yaron,Assaf Sternberg,Itay Rabinak,Eli Waxman,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Robert M. Quimby,Eran O. Ofek,Assaf Horesh,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Alexei V. Filippenko,Jeffrey M. Silverman,S. Bradley Cenko,Wei Li,Joshua S. Bloom,Mark Sullivan,Derek B. Fox,Peter Nugent,Dovi Poznanski,Evgeny Gorbikov,Amedee Riou,Stephane Lamotte-Bailey,Thomas Griga,Judith G. Cohen,David Polishook,Dong Xu,Sagi Ben-Ami,Ilan Manulis,Emma S. Walker,P. A. Mazzali,Elena Pian,Thomas Matheson,Kate Maquire,Yen-Chen Pan,D. Bersier,Philip A. James,Jonathan M. Marchant,Robert J. Smith,C. J. Mottram,R. M. Barnsley,M. T. Kandrashoff,Kelsey I. Clubb +42 more
TL;DR: In this article, a supernova (SN) exploded in the nearby galaxy M51 (the Whirlpool Galaxy) and rapidly confirmed it to be a Type II supernova.
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ANALYSIS OF THE EARLY-TIME OPTICAL SPECTRA OF SN 2011fe IN M101
Jerod T. Parrent,Jerod T. Parrent,D. A. Howell,D. A. Howell,Brian Friesen,R. C. Thomas,Robert A. Fesen,Dan Milisavljevic,Federica B. Bianco,Federica B. Bianco,Ben Dilday,Ben Dilday,Peter Nugent,Peter Nugent,E. Baron,E. Baron,Iair Arcavi,Sagi Ben-Ami,D. Bersier,Lars Bildsten,Josh Bloom,Yi Cao,S. B. Cenko,Alexei V. Filippenko,Avishay Gal-Yam,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Nick P. Konidaris,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Nicholas M. Law,David Levitan,Kate Maguire,Paolo A. Mazzali,Eran O. Ofek,Yen-Chen Pan,David Polishook,Dovi Poznanski,Robert M. Quimby,J. M. Silverman,Assaf Sternberg,Mark Sullivan,Emma S. Walker,Dong Xu,C. Buton,R. Pereira +43 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the early evolution of a "normal" SN Ia, its compositional structure, and its elusive progenitor system using high signal-to-noise spectra.
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The Palomar Transient Factory Photometric Calibration
Eran O. Ofek,Eran O. Ofek,Russ R. Laher,Nicholas M. Law,Jason Surace,David Levitan,Branimir Sesar,Assaf Horesh,Dovi Poznanski,Dovi Poznanski,J. C. van Eyken,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Peter Nugent,Jeffry Zolkower,R. Walters,Mark Sullivan,Marcel A. Agüeros,Lars Bildsten,Josh Bloom,S. B. Cenko,Avishay Gal-Yam,Carl J. Grillmair,George Helou,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Robert Quimby +24 more
TL;DR: The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) provides multiple epoch imaging for a large fraction of the celestial sphere as discussed by the authors, which enables the calibration of fields that are outside the SDSS footprint.
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Improved standardization of type ii-p supernovae: application to an expanded sample
Dovi Poznanski,Nathaniel R. Butler,Alexei V. Filippenko,Mohan Ganeshalingam,Weidong Li,Joshua S. Bloom,Ryan Chornock,Ryan J. Foley,Ryan J. Foley,Peter Nugent,Jeffrey M. Silverman,S. Bradley Cenko,Elinor L. Gates,Douglas C. Leonard,Adam A. Miller,Maryam Modjaz,Frank J. D. Serduke,Nathan Smith,Brandon J. Swift,Diane S. Wong +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived a tight Hubble diagram with a dispersion of 10% in distance, using the simple correlation between luminosity and photospheric velocity introduced by Hamuy and Pinto and showed that the descendent method of Nugent et al. can be further simplified and that the correction for dust extinction has low statistical impact.
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Precursors prior to Type IIn supernova explosions are common: precursor rates, properties, and correlations
Eran O. Ofek,Mark Sullivan,Nir J. Shaviv,Aviram Steinbok,Iair Arcavi,Avishay Gal-Yam,D. Tal,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Peter Nugent,Sagi Ben-Ami,M. M. Kasliwal,S. Bradley Cenko,R. R. Laher,Jason Surace,J. S. Bloom,Alexei V. Filippenko,O. Yaron +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a sample of 16 supernovae (SNe IIn) for which they have Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) observations obtained prior to the SN explosion.